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From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 cases that shocked the world by Richard Henriques
RRP: £25.00£18.02'If Henriques were a fictional character, he would be a celebrity, the kind of dashing, hawkish QC who turns up in Agatha Christie novels and is recognised by everybody... There is an undeniable, lawyerly authenticity about Henriques's book. He takes us... -
American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web by Nick Bilton
RRP: £14.99£10.95A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom - and almost got away with it.In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks
RRP: £12.99£8.60New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind... -
Rigged: The Incredible True Story of the Whistleblowers Jailed after Exposing the Rotten Heart of the Financial System by Andy Verity
RRP: £25.00£18.94Rigged exposes a cover-up at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic, upending the official story of the biggest scandal since the global financial crisis. It picks up where The Big Short leaves off, as the dark clouds of the financial crisis... -
The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746278Author Edward HumesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money by Owen Walker
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is a must read!' Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats'Reads like a rip roaring tale of a corporate high wire act' John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor 'Should be sold with a bottle of blood-pressure pills' Edward Lucas, The Times... -
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
RRP: £10.99£7.77A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE 2020 CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A triumph on every level... -
A History of Torture in Britain by Webb, Simon
RRP: £12.99£9.09There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until... -
A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins
RRP: £10.99£7.40The acclaimed author of AMERICAN DIRT reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book: the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.A RIP IN HEAVEN is Jeanine Cummins'... -
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur
RRP: £9.99£6.70I propose to open my mind as wide as possible to allow my readers the first ever glimpse at South Central from my side of the gun, street, fence and wall.After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members,... -
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective. by Jackie Malton
RRP: £20.00£18.02HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023***'Jaw-dropping.' -Val McDermid'Pacy, witty... 4*' - The Telegraph'A terrific read!' -Baroness Helena Kennedy QC'Unputdownable. Searingly honest, shocking and funny.' -Barbara Machin,... -
The Great Train Robbery: Crime of the Century: The Definitive Account by Nick Russell-Pavier
RRP: £12.99£8.60Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, GBP2.6 million (GBP50 million today) in unmarked GBP5, GBP1 and 10-shilling notes was... -
Calling Sergeant Crockford: The story of a pioneering policewoman in the 1960s by Ruth D'Alessandro 9781802793703
RRP: £10.99£6.47It's the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. The Cold War is at its height and support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is building. The Berkshire Constabulary's Detective Gwen Crockford is promoted to Woman Police Sergeant in Newbury - the town at the... -
Ultra by Tobias Jones
RRP: £9.99£7.11Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year Ultras are often compared to punks, Hell's Angels, hooligans or the South American Barras Bravas. But in truth, they are a thoroughly Italian phenomenon... From the author of The Dark Heart of... -
Queen of Diamonds: An exciting and gripping new crime saga series by Beezy Marsh 9781398718890
RRP: £9.99£6.80London, 1922. Orphan girl Alice dreams there's more to life than toiling long hours in Pink's jam factory. Inspired by stories about the legendary Queen of Thieves, Mary Carr, who terrorised the streets of Victorian London, Alice decides to set up her... -
People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richard Lloyd Parry
RRP: £10.99£7.77*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the... -
Codename Tricycle: The true story of the Second World War's most extraordinary double agent by Russell Miller
RRP: £12.99£9.09A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies' man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy amongst the top echelons of British society to become one of Germany's most trusted spies. In fact, he was one of Britain's most... -
11 Oak Street: The True Story of the Abduction of a Three Year Old Child and its Appalling Lifetime Consequences by Graham Cook
RRP: £5.99£5.5111 Oak Street is the true story of how the exclusive Queen's bankers, Coutts & Co sent two large cashiers cheques to a Urie Walsh, Graham Cook's lawyer in San Francisco,the envelope had the wrong address on it (11 Oak Street instead of 1111 Oak Street)... -
The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story by David Crow 9780997487152
RRP: £15.00£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997487152Author David CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Sandra Jonas Publishing HousePublisher Sandra Jonas Publishing HouseWeight(grams)... -
Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob by Kevin Weeks
RRP: £9.99£7.11I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy. Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we made people disappear-permanently. We made millions... -
Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer by Robert Graysmith 9781845765316
RRP: £8.99£6.45"This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is so much fun...the most thrilling experience..." This shocking true crime classic is now a major movie. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the... -
The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist by Neil Forsyth
RRP: £16.99£12.28The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost GBP26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world... -
The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew
RRP: £20.00£14.29The second sensational volume of 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' (The Times)When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it caused an international sensation. The Mitrokhin Archive II... -
Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex by Hannah Morgan
RRP: £8.99£6.02A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual physical and sexual abuse. When Hannah Morgan first met Matt, she was completely swept off her... -
Out of My Depth by Anne Darwin
RRP: £8.99£6.45When Anne Darwin told the world and her family that her husband, John, had disappeared while canoeing in the North Sea, her life changed forever.She had just lied to the police, the press, her friends and neighbours, insurance companies and her own sons... -
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden 9781786490711
RRP: £10.99£7.32A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of... -
Gangs of Britain - The Gripping True Stories Behind Britain's Organised Crime by Wensley Clarkson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Today's gangsters are streets apart from the old-style gang lords of the Fifties and Sixties. The godfathers of old were seen by many as a stabilising influence. Their power inspired respect and they well and truly kept the underworld in check. The... -
A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond by David Wilson
RRP: £10.99£5.96BE THE FIRST TO READ DAVID WILSON'S NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK "A PLOT TO KILL" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW Expanded and updated, this is the definitive history of British serial killing 1888-2020 - by the UK's leading criminologist, David WilsonIn this fascinating... -
Murder Investigation Team by Steven Keogh
RRP: £9.99£6.85*A must-read for all True Crime fans*Why are Scotland Yard murder detectives considered among the finest in the world? And why is so little known about how they truly work? ? Take a look at what lies behind that success with someone who knows.DI Steven... -
Bandit Country by Jamie Reid 9781789465501
RRP: £9.99£6.52Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen. Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric... -
The Gypsy Code: The true story of hide-and-seek in a violent underworld by Mike Woodhouse
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Gypsy Code is a true story of secret identity, revenge and forbidden love that's perfect for fans of Running with the Firm, Undercover and Soldier Spy.Mike Woodhouse had everything: an engineering business, a wine bar, a home, a Range Rover and a... -
Good Cop, Bad War by Neil Woods
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Undercover, you're never just acting; you're only ever a different version of yourself.'Neil Woods spent fourteen years (1993-2007) infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover policeman, befriending and gaining the trust of some of the most violent,... -
I Heard You Paint Houses: Now Filmed as The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese by Charles Brandt
RRP: £10.99£7.77Now filmed as 'The Irishman' starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci 'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters... -
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
RRP: £10.99£7.12'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have worked for British... -
A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney
RRP: £18.99£13.61For decades the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man: GerryAdams... -
"She Must Have Known": The Trial Of Rosemary West by Brian Masters
RRP: £12.99£6.45Captivated by the hit ITV true crime drama DES? Uncover the truth behind the trial of Rosemary West, another of Britain's most infamous serial killers.'Anyone reading this brilliant book will wonder whether justice was really done.' Evening StandardIn... -
You're Going Home in a F*cking Ambulance by Cass Pennant
RRP: £8.99£6.22In his latest book, bestselling author Cass Pennant takes an engaging and unparalleled look at some of the most volatile and violent scenes of fans following their football clubs to have unfolded over the past five decades, and examines the lengths to... -
Wiltshire Murders by Nicola Sly 9780752448961
RRP: £12.99£9.62Wiltshire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever... -
Escape: The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton by David McMillan 9781912049967
RRP: £9.99£6.44Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The "Bangkok Hilton", where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled prison city also wait and rot. Among the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape. This is the... -
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber
RRP: £9.99£6.70NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND JESSICA CHASTAIN'A stunning book... should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood' New York TimesAfter his arrest in 2003, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed 'The Angel of Death' by the media...